Dr. Swann tells the delightful story of Christopher Todd's learning how to speak. All his friends laugh at him because he cannot speak clearly. Christopher has a wonderful dream about a magical foof. In this dream he realizes that someday he will be able to talk just like all his friends. After this, no matter how much he is teased, Christopher just smiles.
Memories of a grandparent spinning tales around animals and mysterious characters have kept many of us rapt till date. Sudha Murty's Grandma's Bag of Stories is simply delightful. The story starts with Anand, Krishna, Raghu and Meena arriving at their grandparents' house in Shiggaon. Overjoyed Ajji and Ajja(Grandmother and grandfather in Kannada) get the house ready, while Ajji prepares delicious snacks for children. Finally, times comes when everyone gathers around Ajji, as she opens her big bag of stories. She tells stories of kings and cheats, princesses and onions, monkeys and mice and scorpions and hidden treasures.
Though unlikely in combination, stories makes perfect sense when Grandma is the one narrating them. This book is ideal for young children and those who are 5+ in age. Stories are accompanied by colourful illustrations and morals. Lucid and simple language of the book, makes reading a pleasure.
About the author:
Active Indian social worker and writer, Sudha Murty was born 19th August 1950. She writes in two languages: Kannada and English. Sudha started her career in field of computer science and engineering. She is an active member in the Gate Foundation and the chairperson of a non-profit organization, Infosys Foundation in Karnataka. Credited for founding several orphanages, Sudha has also participated in various rural development efforts, to provide library and computer facilities in all Government schools of Karnataka. One of her many achievements includes establishing the 'The Murty Classical Library of India' at Harvard University. Apart from writing novels, she has also acted in films: Pitruroon (Marathi film) and Prarthana(Kannada film).
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Fox learns an important lesson about cheating when he tries to trick Puddles and KaWally. Fox almost gets away with it until he runs into Bru Bear and leans a lesson he is sure to remember.
When Tux and KaWally find a trail of beautiful apples on the path they think they have hit the jackpot.They begin to have second thoughts after collecting their find and in the end learn a valuable lesson about honesty when they return the apples to Fox.
PJ overhears his friends talking and only gets part of the story. Instead of talking to his friends PJ worries himself sick about what he thinks he heard. When PJ finds out what he he thought he heard was not true and all his worry was for nothing he learns an important lesson about worry.
PJ is out of control. He loves the color purple and he is painting everything he can find purple. His friends come around and PJ learns an important lesson in self-control.
Bru Bear is having a bad day and he takes it out on everything and everyone. His anger is is getting him deeper and deeper in trouble until his little buddy, McWhiskers comes along and teaches Bru an important lesson about anger and friendship.
McWhiskers gets a confusing note in the mail. He is led on an adventure that he almost gives up on. In the end he learns his friends have planned a special surprise for him and McWhiskers learns an important lesson about friendship.
Bru Bear is a stubborn bear and once he gets his mind set on something it really hard to for him to change his mind. When he decides to pick apples by standing on some old barrels he piles up he learns the important lesson about being stubborn the hard way.
Bru finds an old hat and he thinks he can tell all about the person who owns an old hat. It takes the rest of the gang to show Bru how wrong he could be and teach him an important lesson about judging others.
Puddles has a problem and he doesn't know what to do. He asks each of his friends and doesn't get a satisfactory answer. Finally he decides to talk to McWhiskers and when McWhiskers accepts Puddles' apology, Puddles learns an important lesson about Forgiveness.
